Wilford called back to Salt Lake City for a meeting of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
November 09, 1885 ~ Monday
9
Letters to Sarah, & Wm H. Thompson My wife Phebe
is vary low Bulah thought she was dying wrote to Nellie
At 6 oclock I called to see my wife
Phebe who was vary low I laid my hands upon
her head & Blessed her And anointed her for her burial
and at 2 oclok she died. Thus we part after living together
48 years & 6 months in the Marriage Covenant
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Woodruff, Beulah Augusta Beatie
19 Jul 1851 - 13 Jan 1905
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Woodruff, Emma Manella
4 Jul 1860 - 30 Nov 1905
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Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
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Woodruff, Sarah Brown
1 Jan 1834 - 9 May 1909
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Thompson, William Henry
1 May 1838 - 3 Apr 1922
264 mentions
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Wilford sees his wife Phebe for the last time and gives her a blessing.
Phebe Woodruff dies; Wilford watches funeral from Church office to avoid arrest.